Halldór Laxness Quote

People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.


Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)


People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing...

People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing...

People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing...

People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing...